Mullen Asserts Pakistani Role in Attack on U.S. Embassy

[YankeeFan]

Hard to view this as anything other than an act of war.

The nation’s top military official said Thursday that Pakistan’s spy agency played a direct role in supporting the insurgents who carried out the deadly attack on the American Embassy in Kabul last week. It was the most serious charge that the United States has leveled against Pakistan in the decade that America has been at war in Afghanistan.

In comments that were the first to directly link the spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, with an assault on the United States, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went further than any other American official in blaming the ISI for undermining the American effort in Afghanistan. His remarks were certain to further fray America’s shaky relationship with Pakistan, a nominal ally.

The United States has long said that Pakistan’s intelligence agency supports the Haqqani network, based in Pakistan’s tribal areas, as a way to extend Pakistani influence in Afghanistan. But Admiral Mullen made clear that he believed that the support extended to increasingly high-profile attacks in Afghanistan aimed directly at the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/world/asia/mullen-asserts-pakistani-role-in-attack-on-us-embassy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Let's bomb them!

 

[Stitch]

What does the U.S.'s actions inside Pakistan constitute? An ally doesn't conduct covert military operations inside another ally's borders. It's time for a quick international relations/foreign policy refresher.

 

[Armchair_QB]

What does the U.S.'s actions inside Pakistan constitute? An ally doesn't conduct covert military operations inside another ally's borders. It's time for a quick international relations/foreign policy refresher.

Unless said ally is aware and approves of the covert actions that take place. Pakistan has no control over its Northern Provinces and knows the people there are not their friends.

 

[Boom_70]

Story by Dexter Filkins in New Yorker about links between ISI and Al Qaeda. Includes murder of Pakistani reporter who wrote about the links.

Pretty amazing story. Reads like a spy novel.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/19/110919fa_fact_filkins